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Avoiding Blossom End Rot

June 5, 2020ahoggard

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Variable June weather often creates conditions favorable for blossom end rot in susceptible crops, with tomatoes and peppers being the most affected. In most years, there is a transition point in June… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:12, blossom end rot, calcium, pepper, physiological disorders, tomato

Blossom End Rot Revisited

July 13, 2018Emmalea Garver Ernest

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Blossom end rot (BER) is showing up again this year in peppers and we expect it to be prevalent in tomatoes because of the recent hot weather. BER is a disorder where… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 26:16, abiotic stress, blossom end rot, calcium, pepper, physiological disorders, tomato

Calcium Disorders Revisited

August 25, 2017cmanneri

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Calcium dominates exchange sites in soils and is rarely deficient. However, a number of calcium disorders can affect crops, even in well limed soils including: Blossom end rot in tomatoes, peppers, and… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops blossom end rot, calcium, eggplant, pepper, tomato, watermelon

Avoiding Blossom End Rot

June 10, 2016Emmalea Garver Ernest

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Variable June weather often creates conditions favorable for blossom end rot in susceptible crops, with tomatoes and peppers being the most affected. In most years, there is a transition point in June… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 24:12, blossom end rot, calcium, pepper anthracnose, physiological disorders, tomato

Tomato and Blossom End Rot

July 11, 2014Emmalea Garver Ernest

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland;jbrust@umd.edu This is just a reminder that with the peculiar weather we have had lately blossom end rot can become a real problem in tomatoes. The stretches of very high temperatures and then… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 22:16, blossom end rot, physiological disorders, tomato

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